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COMO IN THE SPRING?

I have a tough job: I’m endlessly trying to convince my wife that I have a job. It’s a task that was made all the harder when I told her I needed to attend the Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este on the banks of Lake Como this year. “For what?” she said. “A jolly on the lake?” I pushed back as best I could — well, yes.

Concorso is almost certainly the most elegant get-together in the automotive calendar. It’s a gathering I’ve admired

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